My little collection of German stamps came to light this morning.
Some show inflationary price rises, which marked the economic chaos Germany was in after the First World War.
In 1921 it took 75 marks to buy 1 dollar. In the following years the figures become staggering:
1922: 400 marks to the dollar.
1923: 7,000 marks to the dollar.
January 1923: 18,000 marks to the dollar.
1 July 1923: 160,000 marks to the dollar.
1 August 1923: 1 million marks to the dollar.
November 1923: 4 billion marks to the dollar.
After November 1923 the figures were into the trillions.
(
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich, William L. Shirer, Pan Books, 1964)